Sarah Gooda is a freelance director, technician, filmmaker and artsworker based on the Gold Coast. She moved to Australia in February 2010, and has a wide range of experience in the arts, events and media production, both in her native UK and abroad.

Sarah’s experience includes:
* Technical roles including lighting, sound & AV design and general technician / technical management roles for theatre and live events.
* Stage and Production Management
* Directing theatre and short films
* Filmmaking and various crew roles in film & TV production.
* Writing (scripts & travel writing) and Script Editing
* Photography
* Events Management, including charity fundraising
* Music – playing solo and in ensembles in a range of styles
* Youth work including teaching and workshop leading

Sarah has been involved in the arts from a young age, playing music and acting in school plays from the age of 6. By 18, Sarah had performed with numerous musical ensembles around the south east of England, toured the Czech Republic with a wind band, composed the scores and been musical director for four theatre productions, and tried her hand at stage management. She went on to graduate with a music degree, specialising in composition and musical theatre, and during her three year course she worked voluntarily on over 70 film and theatre productions, in roles from acting and playing in show bands to lighting and sound design, stage management, boom operation, and choreography. During her final year at university, Sarah set up Spangled Aura Productions, through which she produced and directed her first original full-length musical.

After graduating, Sarah embarked on a career in stage management and technical theatre which has seen her work on music festivals, fringe, plays and pantos all over the UK, tour Ireland relighting a ballet, and spent 18 months in Australia and New Zealand working on festivals and events and performing in a play in Tasmania. She has designed the lighting for shows in London, Melbourne, New York and the Edinburgh Fringe, operated sound in the dark in a dried up river bed in Alice Springs, co-ordinated carnivals and worked for a year as chief technician for the build and opening of a new theatre in the UK. She has also crewed on film and TV productions in a range of roles, including sound designing, technical roles, and 1st AD on the preproduction phase of a feature film.

Sarah is still Artistic Director of Spangled Aura Productions, through which she has produced and directed documentaries, a film festival, short films, fand most recently 'The Magic Garden', a children's promenade performance. In 2009 Sarah set up GlobalEyes, an education project which has gained recognition as a charity in the UK. She has run cultural workshops with a youth group in Cardiff and will be working with children in Burma during 2010, on a hygiene and AIDS awareness project taught through the medium of the performing arts. Sarah regularly organises fundraising events for the charity, including concerts, ceilidhs and arts-based competitions.

Sarah is still a keen musician and until leaving the UK was playing regularly with the Pavane Early Music Consort, City of Cardiff Concert Band, St Edwards Chamber Orchestra, and for Cardiff Ladies Morris. She plays flute and piccolo, saxophone, recorders and a number of early and ethnic instruments. Sarah has a small home-studio for recording and editing audio and music, and is currently working on the score for her second stage musical.

As well as her own scripts, Sarah has also edited a number of scripts for other people, and her travel journals from nearly 2 years worth of journeys are currently being prepared for publishing and should be available later this year as a book ‘From a land Down Under to the Arctic Circle.’

Sarah has worked as a woodwind teacher, worked with numerous youth theatres, run a music group for disabled teenagers and a recorder group, and run workshops including audio, lighting and film-making workshops with teenagers, and arts and music workshops with Brownie and Guide groups.

Sarah Gooda

email: sarah@sarahgooda.co.uk

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